The time to find this equilibrium has passed. I'm already depressed and nihilistic
Well that sounds... a bit depressing.
Have you tried psychedelics?
I get the anxiety of global warming and global capitalism being the end of the world, but we we will fix it!
You see, as the globe heats up and crops die, countries will begin fighting for resources . There will be larger and larger migrations of people from the unhabitable places and warzones to more developed countries, which we have already been seeing. This has already triggered a push of nationalism and authoritarianism, and it will get much worse. As democracies fall to dictatorships, global peace will fall apart as despots wage war with each other. At this point it's just a matter of time before all the nukes are launched.
And then it's nuclear winter!
It will last only a decade, but with 93% of the population dying, we will see a large reduction of carbon emissions as humanity is sent back to the year 1300. Those billionaires who could afford their bunkers and have the political skill to maintain their power will emerge as competing warlords that will plunge humanity further into chaos to an age of violence, instability, and oppression. Then it's just 700~ 1000 years to reach the technological and population levels of today!
I am an optimist.
Aka the difference between pushing voter apathy suppression propaganda online or actually helping.
The voter apathy propaganda is so damn infuriating and comes up around this time every 4 years from folks who refuse to offer any alternatives besides telling people to organize and other nonsense without providing any resources on how to do so.
But Biden directly shoots Gazan children himself so you should throw your vote away on a green party candidate instead. Trust me.
Yeah, Trump will be worse and we should just ignore everything Democrats have accomplished or try to accomplish by lumping them in with the worst of their party while blaming them for everything a Republican has done like the sane non brainwashed person I am. I'm helping! I swear! People do more when they're hopeless!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
Honestly the thing people need to do is just call it out for the ludicrousness it is every time. People think it's a popular opinion and it may be in some circles. But don't let it just slide. Make fun of it. Call it out for the propaganda it is. You don't have to be a paid Russian troll to push prop. People here can fall for it just as easily as the people wacthing Fox News.
Politicians love non-voters, one less idiot they need to convince.
I’ve always found clearing all the purity tests online leftists ask you to jump through to be the tricky part
all the purity tests
You mean basic human decency?
Like, can you give one example of what you're complaining about as an unrealistic standard?
I am pro basic human decency, I just wish more online leftists realize you get things done with a big tent. Perfect is the enemy of good.
Fred Hampton wasn’t killed by the FBI because he had the most stringent purity tests, he was killed cause he was able to convince a lot of people to come under his tent to fight for workers.
I can understand what they're saying. You expect hateful shit from the right-wing assholes, and fighting against their bullshit is a worthy cause.
But the left is prickly, including to its allies. Hell, especially to its allies. And it is so much more exhausting when it is coming from your own side.
As an example, when Lil Nas X was accused of faking being gay for, I guess money, or pushing some agenda, he said "I just like dick" and that there's nothing deep to it. People started attacking him for "trans erasure" and such nonsense. The man didn't say he likes all dick, and I'm sure if it were attached to a woman, he wouldn't be about it (and if there was a man without one, he presumably also would not be interested). It was a toss away comment that is easily understood in the context, and people felt the need to attack him for it. It should not bear this level of analysis and scrutiny, but here we are.
The purity tests usually come from leftist adjacent groups that actually have nothing to do with left wing ideology. Read Tankies and some extremely small groups of vegans (Most are fine). They for some reason love telling you "Lefties who aren't [INSERT THING HERE] are hypocritical and not real leftists"
Really it's a huge nothing burger complaining about silly people on twitter and Reddit who ultimately do not matter.
Ahhh, the purity test starts.
I don't know why this didn't dawn on me until just now, but...
One thing the alt right's pervasive bad faith online bullshit accomplishes is wearing down the left making us far more likely to respond with reflexive hostility to any hint of similar behavior. (Edit: often mistakenly)
It isn't just about recruiting, trolling, power moves, "winning" arguments in others' perception, but also fomenting infighting among the left.
You’re right, I think concern trolling is absolutely a factor in the knee jerk hostility for some. I think there are some that probably think I’m concern trolling in this thread right now. Thankfully I think my post history is a decent indication I’m not.
The downvotes are a funny proof. Guess you failed a test....
The only thing you really need to be a leftist is emphathy and a disdain for ignorance, after you have that everything else will fall into place.
False. The only thing you need to be a leftist is empathy, a willingness to learn, and a willingness to teach what you've learned.
Leave your disdain at home. Disdain is what begets purity tests and misunderstandings. Everyone is born ignorant. Don't disdain the ignorant. But don't waste your time with those who refuse to learn.
As hard and frustrating as it can be for those in the west to escape the mental conditioning and brainwashing they all go through. It's still sad to see people do that. Only to be indoctrinated into Marxist Leninist mindsets. Failing to learn from their failures of the last century. Which are often similarly, as bad as the capitalists.
The will to fight? I'm treading the line for will to live most of the time.
I wish we could send the religious fanatics to another land and let them set whatever rules they want for themselves. Leave the rest of us alone.
That's how you got America in the first place. The Puritans left England to go to America because they weren't allowed to subjugate the people they wanted to. Colonialism fell out of fashion and now they have nowhere to run except Russia, China and Africa, but those places are filled with foreigners already.
Should have known the whole thing was suspect when they landed at the same place they left from.
Not exactly. The motivation to leave Europe is right in the Constitution if you look at it carefully enough. The whole church of England (or whatever country) thing was their big problem. They wanted to go somewhere that they didn't have a mandatory church so everyone would be free to practice whatever religion they want. At the time if the church of England was Catholic and you were Protestant, there would be problems (and vice versa).
I'm not sure that the founding fathers really considered that having no religion was also valid, and that having a non-Christian religion was also valid, but that's exactly the ideas they tried to enshrine in the Constitution.
The right wing nutjobs wanting to make their religious beliefs into law would be dissidents when the United States signed that piece of paper declaring themselves as a new country. IMO, they still are, and bluntly, they should go. If they're not willing to be tolerant of other faiths, then they're being rather un-American.
I remember a long while back, maybe even in the W administration, there was an image going around with The United States of Canada as one big happy country to the north, and Jesusland which was basically the American south.
I can’t believe how much MORE sense it makes now.
Ye, send them to somewhere in the middle ea.. oh wait.
Therapy helps
I shouldn't need therapy to decide on some BS that other people argue about.
Try to find a reason to act that isn't outrage, that isn't healthy
I don't know any other way about forced birth, racism, book burnings, christofascism, and genocide.
But you're right, I've felt too worn down to do as much as I would have liked.
Fuck me, that's so true
Right in the feels.
Breaking through the exhausted nihilism to find the secret second layer of righteous outrage
I’d say the trickiest part is knowing exactly what will happen (in the grand scheme of things, ofc. clairvoyance in the meme sense), then see it happen and having no power to stop it at all.
And seeing all the people around you post-justify every shitty thing that happened through the lens of a mystical ideology of either conservatism or liberalism.
While you’re like: but remember I said this was gonna happen because of x, y and z material conditions?
And you can see their selfs shutdown behind their eyes. And they go back to just repeating their same old talking points and sound bites and “memes”.
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Love me some Kavernacle 🤙
Yeah this actually explains a lot I have been going through.
